• In its first game since forward Brandon Davies was kicked off the team for premarital fornication, BYU lost to the New Mexico Lobos by 18. "They just had our number," said BYU guard Jimmer Fredette. [Salt Lake Tribune]

• Packers GM Ted Thompson didn't cut linebacker A.J. Hawk. The "business side of the game" did. Thompson hopes all three can still work things out. [Green Bay Press Gazette]

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• The penalty for kicking an owl: Two games and $560 [ESPN]. The penalty for sassing Giuseppe Rossi's look and command of the Italian language? Tweets from the jugador of Villarreal by way of NJ about gangbanging your mammy. [Twitter]

• If you had Coco Crisp of the Oakland A's finishing second in the Spring Training DUI-Related Arrest Block Pool, you are a winner. And so is Coco, what with getting back to practice in time for the league's annual "spring lecture" about behavior and whatnot. [ESPN] (H/T Choo)

• And if you had A.J. Pierzynski of the Chicago White Sox finish first in the Spring Training Ticketed-While-In-Uniform block pool too, you're a bi-winner. [CSN Chicago]